JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — If you have attended a nondescript bowl game, you know what it was like to watch the Minnesota Vikings play the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday at EverBank Stadium. Had Sam Darnold’s counterpart not been Mac Jones, who started for Jacksonville in place of the injured Trevor Lawrence, the Vikings might not have escaped this town with an …
EAGAN, Minn. — And so it begins. Head Coach Kevin O'Connell says Sam Darnold will start at QB before J.J. McCarthy gets a significant amount of work in the preseason opener on Saturday. That’s what the Vikings have done with Rodriguez, and he has garnered enough respect for defensive coordinator Brian Flores to occasionally toss him in with the first-stringers. …
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Aidan O’Connell at Purdue and Gardner Minshew at Washington State were used to fighting for their jobs, and little has changed in the NFL. It’s just good to be back out here again with the guys, putting the helmet on and really getting to work today.” Patriots First-year Patriots coach Jerod Mayo is keeping an open …
By Matt Barrows, David Lombardi and Jeff Howe The San Francisco 49ers and quarterback Sam Darnold have agreed to terms on a one-year deal, team and league sources confirmed to The Athletic. At the very least Darnold’s addition bolsters the 49ers’ depth at their most important position, a major issue last season when they literally ran out of healthy quarterbacks …
